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religious rights

religious rights is the plural of religious right.

Meaning of religious right

Noun

religious right (countable and uncountable, plural religious rights)

  1. (US, uncountable) Right-wing, religious (especially Christian) political movements characterized by their support of socially conservative policies.
    • However, many members of the religious right don't think prayer in public schools should be commonplace.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: The right for someone to practice their religion.
    • The plaintiff argued he had a religious right to wear his headdress although it reduced the effectiveness of his hard hat which is required of all persons on site.

Questions about religious rights

What is religious rights the plural of?
Religious rights is the plural of religious right.

Words near religious rights in the dictionary

  1. religious order
  2. religious orders
  3. religious pluralism
  4. religious police
  5. religious right
  6. religious rights
  7. religious service
  8. religious services
  9. Religious Society of Friends
  10. religious studies
  11. religious text

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Adapted from Wiktionary: religious rights (page history and authors); religious right (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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